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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
MEANRANK
81/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #498
- IMDb #1142
- Rotten Tomatoes #401
- Metacritic #361
- Letterboxd #360
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #560
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #688
- Metacritic Critics #422
- Metacritic Audience #558
- Douban #868
- Kinopoisk #1179
- AlloCiné #1591
- Trakt #910
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is AlloCiné on 74, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 94.
See the most agreed on films →A voice actress is dumped by her lover over an answering machine message. As she tries to track him down, her life spirals into comic chaos. Her best friend discovers her own husband is cheating, her lover's son and his neurotic fiancée show up at her apartment, and a terrorist plot involving gazpacho somehow gets mixed up in it all.
Details
- Director
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Writer
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Studio
- El Deseo, Laurenfilm
- Released
- 25 March 1988
- Country
- Spain
- Language
- Spanish
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $700.0K
- Box office
- $15.0M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 5 →2 wins from 5 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| 61st Academy Awards 1989 | Best International Feature Film | Nominee | |
| International Submission to the Academy Awards 1989 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | Spain | Nominee |
| 1st European Film Awards 1988 | Young European Film of the Year | Pedro Almodóvar | Winner |
| 1st European Film Awards 1988 | Best Actress | Carmen Maura | Winner |
| 1st European Film Awards 1988 | Best Art Direction | Félix Murcia | Nominee |
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5 awards — Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
×| Best International Feature Film | Nominee |
| International Submission to the Academy Awards | Spain | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Carmen Maura | Winner |
| Young European Film of the Year | Pedro Almodóvar | Winner |
| Best Art Direction | Félix Murcia | Nominee |